Mountainrea
Mountainrea is a townland in the civil parish of Lismore and Mocollop, barony of Coshmore and Coshbride, Co. Waterford. Its name in Irish is Ré an tSléibhe.
- Area
- 47 ha
- 116 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 32,612 m² (3.26 ha, 8.06 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountainrea, from 3,238 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres) to 148,417 m² (14.84 ha, 36.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Mountainrea in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
15 May 2025Conditional
changes to boundaries, elevation and internal layout of alterations to existing dwelling and repositioning of septic tank from that granted under planning registration reference No.23/290
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2558
10 Feb 2025N/a
changes to boundaries, elevation and internal layout of alterations to existing dwelling and repositioning of septic tank from that granted under planning registration reference No.23/290
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2513
19 Oct 2023Conditional
for 1, to alter and extend existing derelict dwelling, 2. demolish attached outbuilding and detached outbuilding, 3. install new septic tank and percolation area. 4. construct new vehicular entrance and 5 Permission to use dwelling for long term letting.
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 23290
12 Aug 2022Conditional
Section 254 Licence for the erection of overground electronic communications infrastructure and any associated physical infrastructure along public roads including: 1)The erection of new overground fibre optic cables on existing timber poles. 2) The erection of new poles and associated fibre optic cables. Poles do not exceed 12 metres in height or approximately 0.3 metres in diameter and are manufactured to EN14229:2010
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 22712
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Mountainrea.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mountainrea.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mountainrea.
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Mountainrea, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mountainrea.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Mountainrea with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.
The townland
- Name
- Mountainrea · Ré an tSléibhe
- Area
- 470,079 m² (47.01 ha, 116.16 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lismore and Mocollop, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coshmore and Coshbride
- Electoral division
- Ballyduff, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 341 people lived in 119 households in the Ballyduff electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coolnaneagh, Curraghacnav, Garrynoe, Knockadullaun East, Lafone, Reacaumaglanna, Tooradoo
- Placenames
- Mountainrea on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.